How to format your references using the Conservation Genetics Resources citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Conservation Genetics Resources. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

Giraldeau L-A (2011) Psychology. When more is more. Science 334:910–911

A journal article with 2 authors

Bright AT, Winzeler EA (2013) Epidemiology: resistance mapping in malaria. Nature 498:446–447

A journal article with 3 authors

Choi W-Y, Giraldez AJ, Schier AF (2007) Target protectors reveal dampening and balancing of Nodal agonist and antagonist by miR-430. Science 318:271–274

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Karhadkar SS, Bova GS, Abdallah N, et al (2004) Hedgehog signalling in prostate regeneration, neoplasia and metastasis. Nature 431:707–712

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

Safonov VO (2016) Trustworthy Cloud Computing. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Chen J, Stephens M, Man Y (eds) (2013) The Future of Public Housing: Ongoing Trends in the East and the West. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Walker J, Reddell P (2007) Retrogressive Succession and Restoration on Old Landscapes. In: Walker LR, Walker J, Hobbs RJ (eds) Linking Restoration and Ecological Succession. Springer, New York, NY, pp 69–89

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Conservation Genetics Resources.

Blog post

Andrew D (2016) What’s Wrong With The Web And Do We Need To Fix It? In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/whats-wrong-with-the-web-and-do-we-need-to-fix-it/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

Government Accountability Office (1990) Airline Deregulation: Trends in Airfares at Airports in Small and Medium-Sized Communities. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

O’Leary JJ (2012) Telling the story: Teaching leaders the art of storytelling and its impact on individuals and the organization. Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

Billard M (2010) All Wrapped Up in McQueen. New York Times E5

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Giraldeau 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Giraldeau 2011; Bright and Winzeler 2013).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Bright and Winzeler 2013)
Three or more authors: (Karhadkar et al. 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Conservation Genetics Resources
Abbreviation	Conserv. Genet. Resour.
ISSN (print)	1877-7252
ISSN (online)	1877-7260
Scope	Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Genetics